Japan, Israel and Britain face unique dangers in 2013, Ian Bremmer, the head of Eurasia Group, tells WSJ's John Bussey. And that puts U.S. goals in Asia, the Mideast and Europe at risk.

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I ... my name is John Bussey of with a Wall Street Journal here today with Ian Bremmer whose president of the Eurasia group on and you've got an essay coming out of our Saturday paper called the online ... review section Friday night ... um that's very interesting it talks about ... the challenges ahead politically ... for an economically for some of our key allies around the world you you you focus on three let's start with the first one ... the first when it disagrees Japan and it's because of its fractious ... relationship with China ... for some these islands that are disputing on sovereignty over ... the summer the shirt each other it is about the commercial relationship between the two that rank low in the most important thing is happening in Asia is that China is rising ... and and this is generally either a positive thing ... or at least the next thing ... for almost everyone in Asia ... except for Japan ... for Japan China's rise is actually ... unabashedly problem ... on the Chinese are being much more assertive or sister can not just on contested territory of but also in terms of their economic relationship and the Chinese don't need the Japanese to when they use to go on don't leave them in terms of their investment dollars ... don't get much technology forget to give something ... away that for the Japanese China's critical ally it's a huge export market ... it's a huge commercial market for them they need a commercial relationship with China but stable ... ideally of course ... because you haven't in a large number of kind of Japanese firms that invest an enormous amount of money in China and that ... the Japanese had the strategy called China plus one ... which is what will we know that ... Michael problematic really trust or put everything in time ... to China and one other country in what turns out that that that's actually a lot of concentration ... into a country that fundamentally ... doesn't like Japan so so we had Protests ... Anti Japanese protests this September over and over issues of ownership of the silence what happen commercially to do and ... commercial EU hand ... of companies like Nissan and Toyota the took an enormous hit in terms of their exports ... are you had Japanese CEOs every single one of them find that when I was there for the IMF meetings ... on said that they were thinking seriously about changing their model of investment China going forward we're moving a lot of expats I think you know we're all things should go ... this is ... economically people for a country they really can afford yet and critical to the US because Japan is ... at the center of our security relationship and in ... the North Asia let let's move on to to Israel ... with their bare we see a ... cut of for for every day in the news headlines all on its borders is having troubles another key US ally in a very ... of import part of the world ... again another key ally under pressure on digits ... shore and just look just like China is rising in each of the big thing happening in the Middle East it's it's exploding we've gone from spring to summer ... with the Durata clinical radicalization becoming much greater across the region the Syrian war of course with half the size of cross its borders the Iran situation becoming more dicey ... and the country that clearly gets it the most naked if Lee ... is America's key on a Middle East that Israel ... because not only have a negative effect of all this turmoil ... aam but also because countries that had been more moderate ... on that were more willing to have balanced relations with Israel a chore ... like ... Egypt white turkey I now see domestic populism as a much more attractive way to go in so they are ... severing ties and there being much more combative ... up with the trip soon ... Iran's nuclear ... ambitions being at the center of a lot of this tension ... involving Israel and against the King ... of the security ally the United States ... what happens there in your estimation how does this play out ... through two thousand and thirteen ... organizations ultimately work ... does Iran get the bomb was sanctions are working ... on and they are they are hurting the Iranians and economically diverse shares which have a currency crisis right now on they have over million barrels a day of oil is not producing because of the sanctions ... that new metal sanctions coming on against them in six months to get gas stations that are hitting ... its crippling the Iranian economy ... the question is ... to do what he does that mean that the Iranians have come to a deal with the Americans on the nuclear program one that we would accept ... one that we could sell on domestically or to the Israelis at the level of demonization that's gone on against Iran some likely some not so ... I'm very skeptical ... so I I think that what's more likely is the shadow war ... this been going on between the U S Israel and Iran ... in terms of sabotage in terms of cyber tactics in a lot of Iranian cyber attacks against American banks recently denial of service a lot of online checking in banking going down ... this is going to get worked up over the course of twenty thirteen and of course again Israel this is a much bigger profit us that are going to the profits it is a much bigger prior Israel Analysts radicals in the region is of much bigger problem for so so so one more key US ally abroad for a Brit abroad and Britain runs into a lie in your ... analysis that the huge problems ... with its position in Europe and that ... there's only us because the US ... as in Britain something of a ... proxy for his own interests in the broader ... European Union ... tell scuttled what which are thinking of a Bharti cut that out of the euro zone if they didn't say from that ... tumult ... of what we're talking about whether or not they stay inside the European Union trade with China rising bad for Japan ... Middle East exploding ... bad for Israel ... Europe muddling through ... to forge stronger more consolidated euros on ... bad for Britain ... because ultimately you moving towards banking unit ... ultimately you moving for its fiscal union the long-term crisis in Europe but ultimately the euro zone will become stronger and more integrated ... the Brits are outside of the ... and in fact right now you're fifty eight percent ... of ... conservatives ... so people to support the present government ... that say they want out of the EU and if the British government doesn't support them ... in the UK Independence Party is going to continue to accompany the doing very well recently so this is really a damned if he can be and if you don't situation ... the Brits export fully half of all of their goods to the euro zone ... and and some of that that that that that's the good of the taker not a maker of regulatory policy and at worst a good idea but I don't know about and they're not going to be on ... the bottom ... of the two books are the candidates ... on in Bremmer the present of the Eurasia group thank you for much for joining us my pleasure thank you for joining us ...